@colour_science

Colour Science for Python https://xitter.cf/t.co/J1M6Vzkqyl… https://xitter.cf/t.co/aOIUQ02vHR.…

 The Spectral Locus
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Joined August 2014
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Maximilian Tarpini@max_tarpiniSep 29
Emissive shaders. Type a temperature in K and get a blackbody colour – that's how most shaders do it, and it's wrong for practically every real material. Kirchhoff's law fixes it. linkedin.com/pulse/thermal-l…

Thermal light emission from hot objects

Most emissive shaders in CG make hot metal glow the same way: you type a temperature in Kelvin, a blackbody function turns it into a colour, and that colour is added on top of the material. Gold,...

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John F. Wu@jwuphysicsSep 25
Building the thing I wish I had as a student
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Adaptive Color Grading (Samsung Labs) github.com/SamsungLabs/adapt…

GitHub - SamsungLabs/adaptive-color-grading: An adaptive color grading interface

An adaptive color grading interface. Contribute to SamsungLabs/adaptive-color-grading development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpicAug 19
Elon Musk’s January 6 Moonshots podcast prediction of 100x gains in intelligence at a fixed model size was at the edge of plausibility when made, now it’s simply a fact. What next?
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@HesamationAug 18
Qwen3.8 27B literally broke the SIZE → INTELLIGENCE curve. Look how far left it is in the optimal quadrant. Crazy that a 27B model is sitting on the Pareto frontier like that. This RESETS expectations for what you can run on consumer hardware.
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Hi-SPAD: Video-Rate Hyperspectral Imaging and Inference with Single-Photon Cameras dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38293…

Hi-SPAD: Video-Rate Hyperspectral Imaging and Inference with Single-Photon Cameras | ACM Transact...

We present Hi-SPAD, a hyperspectral imaging system that combines a pushbroom architecture with single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors to enable high spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions...

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Sebastian Aaltonen
@SebAaltonenJul 6
AAA studios implement technically better cities. This runs poorly on a maxed out MacBook (faster than consoles, and way more RAM). It's impressive that AI can build such big scenes nowadays, but technically they are still far behind on what professionals can achieve.
Ziwen
@ziwenxu_Jul 5
AAA studios spend $200M on a city this good. Ours cost $1,500 and swapped Miami for SF within a week. An agent did it in a loop while we slept, now he's working on the traffic and pedestrian.
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I am excited to announce Dr.Jit 1.4 and Mitsuba 3.9 which now feature GPU-accelerated compute/ray tracing on Apple Silicon. Significant optimizations in both projects accelerate tracing/code generation ~2x. They generate better code and have faster Python bindings.🧵
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On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/…

On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets - The Blog of Maxime Heckel

This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie...

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Jeff Dean
@JeffDeanApr 8
Hedged requests (apparently inspired by the Tail at Scale paper by myself and Luiz Barroso) applied within a single machine to replicating data across DRAM channels and issuing reads to all channels, using the one that comes back first. ~5-15X reduction in p99.99 read latency. github.com/LaurieWired/tails… Cool stuff, @lauriewired! Accompanying video forwarded to me by a friend, which is how I learned about it: youtube.com/watch?v=QFi2WVGf…
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Eric Lengyel
@EricLengyelMar 17
New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-slu…
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I've been working with Spherical Gaussians recently as a representation for irradiance in realtime raytracing. Ended up deriving quite a few new approximations relating to SGs and diffuse lighting. Ended up with something both cheap and accurate. Link below
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Soufiane KHIAT@SoufianeKHIATJan 30
Introducing Alwan (ألوان): A pure C colour science library 100+ RGB spaces, 30+ colour spaces, ACES 1.x & 2.0, spectral processing, CAMs, ... Zero dependencies. Unit tested against @colour_science. f32 or f64 floats. Looking for reviewers before public release (DM for repo). 1/15
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Gaussian-based spectral upsampling using the hierarchical decomposition algorithm from Smits (1999): colour-science.org/posts/gau…

Gaussian-Based Spectral Upsampling

Introduction¶ Spectral reflectance upsampling, or reflectance recovery, is the process of converting tristimulus values into spectral reflectance distributions. This document explores the Gaussi

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Colour 0.4.7 has been released: It is packed with new features and improvements! colour-science.org/posts/col…

Colour 0.4.7 is available!

The colour-science Developers are pleased to announce the release of Colour 0.4.7! This release introduces new chromatic adaptation transform, colour appearance model and colourspaces, thin film opti

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Christoph Peters has finished his series on Spectral Rendering: momentsingraphics.de/Spectra…
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Charlie Marsh
@charliermarsh8 Oct 2025
This year, we managed to ship Python 3.14 support for uv and Ruff on the day of the stable release. A big lift from the whole team. We wrote up a guide on some of our favorite features from 3.14, and how they affect our tools.
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Simon Willison
@simonw8 Oct 2025
Python 3.14 is out today! Here are my notes on the new release: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8… If you're an open source library maintainer who supports all current Python releases this also means you can drop 3.9 support now and start depending on features from 3.10, like match/case

Python 3.14

This year's major Python version, Python 3.14, just made its first stable release! As usual the what's new in Python 3.14 document is the best place to get familiar with …

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The new OpenColorIO Configuration(s) for ACES 2.0 have been released! The `cg-config-v4.0.0_aces-v2.0_ocio-v2.5.ocio` and `studio-config-v4.0.0_aces-v2.0_ocio-v2.5.ocio` configs are already shipped in the OpenColorIO v2.5.0 release. github.com/AcademySoftwareFo…

Release OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 4.0.0 for ACES 2.0 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO-Config...

The new OpenColorIO Configuration(s) for ACES 2.0 have been released! The cg-config-v4.0.0_aces-v2.0_ocio-v2.5.ocio and studio-config-v4.0.0_aces-v2.0_ocio-v2.5.ocio configs are already shipped in ...

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OpenColorIO 2.5.0 was released! github.com/AcademySoftwareFo…

Release v2.5.0 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO

This is the main new feature release for this year and is the base version for the CY2026 VFX Reference Platform (which specifies 2.5.x). The headline features this year are built-in ACES 2 configs...

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We are happy to announce the release of Colour - CxF. This extension package for Colour implements reading and writing files in the Color Exchange Format (CxF). github.com/colour-science/co…

GitHub - colour-science/colour-cxf

Contribute to colour-science/colour-cxf development by creating an account on GitHub.

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